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'''Shantilal Premchand Bhagat'''<ref name="FAO1996">{{cite web |author=Food and Agriculture Organization |author-link=Food and Agriculture Organization |date=1996 |title=Observers from non-governmental organizations |url=http://www.fao.org/wfs/final/list/list5.pdf#page=6 |page=174}}</ref> (1923<ref>{{citation |title=Library of Congress authority ID: n83064194 |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83064194.html |access-date=13 December 2020}}</ref> - 7 July 2017{{r|NewslineObit}}) was the Director of Eco-Justice Concerns for the [[Church of the Brethren]] and the denomination's representative to the United Nations.{{r|FAO1996}} He was an ordained minister in the denomination.<ref name="Concerns 2008">{{cite web | last=Concerns | first=Eco-Justice | title=EEJN: Montreal: Climate Change Negotiations | website=ecojusticenetwork.org | date=8 September 2008 | url=http://www.ecojusticenetwork.org/winter2006/win2006_front.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080908100831/http://www.ecojusticenetwork.org/winter2006/win2006_front.html | archive-date=8 September 2008 | url-status=unfit | access-date=1 February 2020}}</ref> He was also the Brethren representative to the [[National Council of Churches|National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA]]'s Eco-Justice Working Group.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ncccusa.org/news/02news12.html|title = NCC Earth Day Sunday 2002 is "Making the World Safe for Children"}}</ref><br />
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== Biography ==<br />
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Bhagat was from [[India]]. For sixteen years, he worked at the Rural Service Center in [[Anklesvar]]. He moved to the United States to work for the General Board. He took on a variety of roles for the organization including coordinator of Social Services for the Foreign Mission Commission, Community Development consultant, Asia representative, United Nations representative, Global Justice consultant, Education/Economic Justice consultant, staff and then director of Eco-Justice and Rural/Small Church Concerns. He continued with the General Board for over 30 years before his retirement.{{r|NewslineObit}}<br />
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Bhagat sought to expand upon the traditional Brethren support for [[pacifism]] to include environmental concerns, saying "Working on these... issues is part of the Brethren peace witness because we cannot be at peace unless we're at peace with the earth."<ref>{{cite magazine |last=McFadden |first=Wendy |date=March 1991 |title=On Earth Peace conference focused on environment |magazine=Messenger |page=8 |url=https://archive.org/details/messenger1991140111thom/page/n111/mode/2up/}}</ref><br />
In 1990, Bhagat's book, ''Creation in Crisis'' was published. The book was especially designed for use as Sunday school material and small group discussion with study and discussion questions included, although it can also be read individually.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=McFadden |first=Wendy |date=January 1991 |title=New book on environment released by Brethren Press |magazine=Messenger |page=10 |url=https://archive.org/details/messenger1991140111thom/page/n17/mode/2up/}}</ref> ''Creation in Crisis'' was part of a wave of [[Ecotheology]] works which began in the 1980s and continued strongly in the 1990s.<ref name="Paredes 2007">{{citation |last=Paredes |first=José Cristo Rey García |date=2007 |title=Ecotheology: Only Wholeness is Sacred. Towards a new theological Vision |page=5 |url=https://www.academia.edu/16958622}}</ref> The book is included in many Ecotheology bibliographies.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cep.unt.edu/ecotheo.html|title = Ecotheology Book List}}</ref><ref>https://emorycreate.com/bibliography/religionculture-the-environmentsustainability/</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/WeirdWildWeb/proj_bibs_ecoethics_01.htm|title=Projeects: Bibliography in Eco-theology}}</ref>{{r|Paredes 2007}}<ref>{{citation |last=Bakken |first=Peter W. |date=2018 |title=Forum on Religion and Ecology Christianity and Ecology Bibliography |publisher=Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale |pages=18f |url=http://fore.yale.edu/files/christianity_bibliography_with_annotations_September_2018.pdf#page=18}}</ref><ref>{{citation |last=Martos |first=Joseph J. |date=2003 |title=Christian Environmentalism |url=https://www.academia.edu/36702030}}, adapted from {{cite book | last=Martos | first=Joseph | title=May God bless America : George W. Bush and Biblical morality | publisher=Fenestra Books | location=Tucson, Ariz | year=2004 | isbn=978-1-58736-331-3 | oclc=56316316 |page=18}}</ref><br />
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The Parish Ministries Commission of the Church of the Brethren General Board commissioned Bhagat to write about [[racism]] and Christianity, culminating in his 1995 two-part work, ''Racism & the Church: Overcoming the Idolatry''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.commonword.ca/ResourceView/13/10443|title = Racism & the Church Series: Overcoming the Idolatry}}</ref> In the same year, he was honored by the Black Church Committee{{clarify|date=March 2020|reason=Is this a Brethren committee, or an ecumenical one?}} in appreciation for his published works on the topic of race.{{r|NewslineObit}}<br />
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In published his book, ''Your Health and the Environment: A Christian Perspective''. For [[Earth Day]] 1998, the National Council of Churches sent a packet to each congregation of each of its member denominations, 73,000 congregations in total. This packet included Bhagat's book, a two-session adult study guide for the book, and additional resources.<ref>https://archive.wfn.org/1998/02/msg00120.html</ref><br />
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Bhagat participated in the 29 November 1970 ceremony which founded the [[Church of North India]] as a representative of the Church of the Brethren.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cob-newsline.blogspot.com/2010_10_21_archive.html|title=Church of the Brethren Newsline}}</ref> From 2000-2001, Bhagat was part of a delegation from the American Church of the Brethren General Board which explored recognition of Brethren in that country who had joined the Church of North India in 1970 but later withdrew.<ref>https://archive.wfn.org/2001/01/msg00078.html</ref><br />
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In his role as director of Eco-Justice Concerns for the Church of the Brethren General Board, Bhagat produced a newsletter entitled ''Between the Flood and the Rainbow''. This was the first periodical published by the General Board to be published online.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cob-net.org/bibliography.htm|title=Brethren Bibliography}}</ref> It ceased publication in 1997, but resumed in 2002 under the non-profit Ecumenical Eco-Justice Network with Bhagat continuing his editorial role.<ref>Newsline 8 Mar 2002 https://archive.wfn.org/2002/03/msg00060.html</ref><br />
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Bhagat died on July 7, 2017 in La Verne, California, were he had lived the last years of his life.<ref name="NewslineObit">{{cite periodical |date=July 8, 2017 |title=Obituary |magazine=Church of the Brethren Newsline |url=http://www.brethren.org/news/2017/brethren-bits-for-july-8.html}}</ref><br />
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== Published works ==<br />
* {{cite conference |last=Bhagat |first=Shantilal P. |author-mask=1 |date=1975 |editor-last=Dell |editor-first=Robert |title="Dare We Feed the Hungry?" Proceedings of a symposium on environmental ethics held at Manchester College, 13 February 1975 |url=https://www.manchester.edu/oaa/library/archives/index.aspx?record=3727}}<br />
* {{cite book |last=Bhagat |first=Shantilal P. |author-mask=1 |title=What does it profit...? Christian dialogue on the U.S. economy |location=Elgin, IL |publisher=Brethren Press |year=1983 |isbn=9780871789273 |oclc=9324587 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.39000003984072}}<br />
* {{cite book |last1=Heckman |first1=Shirley J. |last2=Bhagat |first2=Shantilal P. |author-mask2=1 |title=What does it profit...? : Teacher's guide |location=Elgin, IL |publisher=Brethren Press |year=1983 |oclc=9733719}}<br />
* {{cite book |last=Bhagat |first=Shantilal P. |author-mask=1 |title=The family farm: Can it be saved? |location=Elgin, IL |publisher=Brethren Press |year=1985 |isbn=0-87178-227-8 |oclc=468734836 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89017974304}}<br />
* {{cite book |last=Bhagat |first=Shantilal P. |author-mask=1 |chapter=Global economy: none of God's business? |title=Proceedings of the third consultation on the heritage of the first and radical reformations on the theme "Christian faith and economics" : held at Komenskeho Evangelicka, Bohoslovecka Fakulta, 115 55 Praha 1, Jungmannova 9, Czechoslovakia, June 20-26, 1989 |year=1990 |oclc=33190073}}<br />
* {{cite book |last=Bhagat |first=Shantilal P. |author-mask=1 |title=Creation in crisis: Responding to God's covenant |location=Elgin, IL |publisher=Brethren Press |year=1990 |isbn=978-0-87178-164-2 |oclc=22274731}}<br />
* {{cite book |last=Bhagat |first=Shantilal P. |author-mask=1 |editor-last=Kinzie |editor-first=Steve |title=Creation: Called to care: Statement of the Church of the Brethren 1991 annual conference |location=Elgin, IL |publisher=Brethren Press |year=1991 |oclc=255511770}}<!-- First presented in 1990 maybe? --><br />
* {{cite AV media |last=Sollenberger |first=David |last2=Bhagat |first2=Shantilal P. |author-mask2=1 |year=1991 |title=The earth is the Lord's |location=Elgin, IL |publisher=Church of the Brethren General Board |medium=VHS |oclc=273979631}}<br />
* {{cite book |editor-last=Bhagat |editor-first=Shantilal P. |editor-mask=1 |title=God's earth our home: A resource for congregational study and action on environmental and economic justice |publisher=Eco-Justice Working Group, National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA |year=1994 |oclc=36599714}} - This packet includes: 12 study sessions, worship resources, glossary, leader’s guide, creation awareness chart, and segments on environmental racism and corporate responsibility.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.interfaithpowerandlight.org/study-guides/|title = Study Guides}}</ref><br />
* {{cite book |editor-last=Bhagat |editor-first=Shantilal P. |editor-mask=1 |title=Now Is The Time to Heal Our Racial Brokenness |type=Congregational Resource Packet |location=Elgin, IL |publisher=Church of the Brethren General Board}}<br />
* {{cite book |last=Bhagat |first=Shantilal P. |author-mask=1 |date=1995 |title=Racism & the Church: Overcoming the Idolatry Vol 1 study resources |location=Elgin, IL |publisher=Church of the Brethren |oclc=33190058 |url=https://www.commonword.ca/ResourceView/82/10444}}<br />
* {{cite book |last=Bhagat |first=Shantilal P. |author-mask=1 |date=1995 |title=Racism & the Church: Overcoming the Idolatry Vol 2 study resources |location=Elgin, IL |publisher=Church of the Brethren |url=https://www.commonword.ca/ResourceView/82/10445}}<br />
* {{cite book |last=Bhagat |first=Shantilal P. |author-mask=1 |title=Your health and the environment: A Christian perspective: A study/action guide for congregations |publisher=Eco-Justice Working Group, National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA |year=1998 |oclc=40358057}} ([https://archive.wfn.org/1997/12/msg00131.html Excerpt])<br />
* {{cite book |last=Bhagat |first=Shantilal P. |author-mask=1 |year=1999 |chapter=Healing ourselves and the earth |editor-last=Schut |editor-first=Michael |title=Simpler living, compassionate life: A Christian perspective |location=Denver, CO |publisher=Morehouse Group |isbn=1-889108-62-6 |oclc=42867986}}<br />
* {{cite book |last=Bhagat |first=Shantilal P. |author-mask=1 |title=Church union in India: The Church of the Brethren experience |location=Elgin, IL |publisher=Global Mission Partnerships, Church of the Brethren General Board |year=2001 |oclc=48629594}}<br />
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* [http://www.brethren.org/bhla/ag/f_foreign_mission_commission_subject_files.html Historical archives of the Rural Service Center at Anklesvar]<br />
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